WordPress SEO Plugin – Rank Math

Description

SEO Plugin For WordPress
★★★★★

SEO is the most consistent source of traffic for any website. We created Rank Math, a WordPress SEO plugin, to help every website owner get access to the SEO tools they need to improve their SEO and attract more traffic to their website.

SEO might be the best and most consistent source of traffic for one’s website, but it’s not without its quirks. The constant process of optimizing your posts can sometimes take more time than actually writing the content. If you always feel that you can do more on the SEO front for your website but don’t have the time, *then Rank Math is what you’re looking for.

Its host of intelligent features brings top SEO capabilities in your hands that were previously out of reach. The smart automation features give you the power of an entire SEO team with just a few clicks. A well thought out design, powerful features, and years of development by the MyThemeShop squad make Rank Math a game-changing SEO plugin that will level the SEO playing field in your favor.

Rank Math beats the competition with hands tied behind its back.

See the features which are exclusive to Rank Math SEO plugin and to understand why Rank Math is possibly the Best SEO Plugin for WordPress.

Google Schema Markup aka Rich Snippets Integrated
Configuring Google Schema Markup, aka Rich Snippets, is now easy, thanks to Rank Math. With support for 13+ types of Schema Markups, aka Rich Snippets, including the Rating Schema, you’ll be able to optimize your posts in just a few clicks. It also includes the FAQ Schema aka FAQPage Schema Block in the plugin.

Optimal Settings Pre-Selected
Configuring an SEO plugin takes time, and can be confusing. Rank Math saves you the trouble with its optimal default settings, which are ideal for most websites, and if needed, can be changed.

Elementor SEO – Deep integration with the Elementor Page builder. Now, you don’t need to go back and forth between tabs to configure your page’s SEO. Everything related to SEO for Elementor can be configured in the visual editor.

Optimize UNLIMITED Keywords At Once — You can optimize your post for up to 5 different keywords by default with the Rank Math plugin and can use a filter to optimize for unlimited keywords.

1-Click Import From Yoast — With a single click of your mouse, Rank Math can import all your settings from Yoast SEO to itself. The transfer is instant, and you don’t lose any SERP rankings as a result.

1-Click Import From AIO SEO — Rank Math can also import all your settings from AIO SEO in a single click. The transfer is instant, and you don’t lose any SERP rankings as a result.

1-Click Import From All In One Schema Rich Snippets — Rank Math can also import all of AIO’s Rich Snippet settings in a few clicks, which help preserve your rich rankings when moving to Rank Math.

1-Click Import From SEOPress SEO — With a single click of your mouse, Rank Math can import all your settings from SEOPress & SEOPress Pro SEO plugin to itself. The transfer is instant, and you don’t lose any SERP rankings as a result.

1-Click Import From Redirection — Moving all your redirects shouldn’t be a hassle. That’s why we have made importing redirections from the popular Redirection plugin as simple as clicking a button.

Google Keyword Suggestion — When deciding on focus keywords, Rank Math can help you discover more keywords by pulling in keyword suggestions from Google.

CONNECT WITH THE TEAM AND SEO EXPERTS

JOIN FACEBOOK GROUP COMMUNITY: The purpose of this Facebook group is to have a collective place where the community can help each other, and we can get some feedback to improve Rank Math as well. Joining the group is also a great way to connect with like-minded people and share your SEO experience.

Getting Started:

1. How to Setup Rank Math: Once you install Rank Math for the first time, you will be greeted with the Setup Wizard, which is discussed in detail here.

2. Facebook Group: In this group, you will find the team of Rank Math SEO plugin fairly active and ready to answer your SEO related queries.

3. User Documentation: Although Rank Math is already easy to set up, we’ve put together tutorials, guides, and some knowledge bases to help you set up and get started with Rank Math.

4. Fixing Common Errors: Sometimes, avoidable or common issues can get you stuck. We’ve created a common guide where we discuss all the common issues and how to fix them.

5. Support Ticket Forum: Our dedicated forum is where you can get support for any issues that you face with Rank Math. In the forum, we’ll also try to answer some SEO queries. User experience is important to us, and our aim is to answer all the queries on the forum in a timely manner.

Screenshots

Optimize Content without any hassle and works with the Classic Editor.

Analyze your website's SEO with one click and fix the issues.

Simple Setup Wizard with 1-Click Importer.

Support for 12+ Rich Snippet types.

No need to pay any service when you can track keyword ranking change from our own Search Console.

Comes with in-built options for social media optimization.

Rank Math Comes with 404 monitor and easy to use Redirection Manager.

Comes with 1-Click Importer for many SEO plugins.

Powerful XML Sitemap.

Role Manager gives you full control. Useful for multi-author sites.

Rank Math Comes with 10+ FREE Module.

Blocks

This plugin provides 3 blocks.

rank-math/faq-block

WordPress SEO Plugin - Rank Math

rank-math/howto-block

WordPress SEO Plugin - Rank Math

rank-math/rich-snippet

WordPress SEO Plugin - Rank Math

Installation

Visit ‘Plugins > Add New’

Search for ‘Rank Math’

Install Rank Math once it appears

Activate Rank Math from your Plugins page.

Go to “after activation” below.

Manually

Upload the seo-by-rank-math folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

Activate the Rank Math plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Go to “after activation” below.

After activation

You should see the Rank Math setup wizard.

Go through the setup wizard and set up the plugin for your site.

You’re done!

FAQ

Do you guarantee that the traffic will increase?

Quite honestly – no one can give you a guarantee that your traffic will increase. If anyone does, they have an agenda, and you should stay as far away from them as possible.

SEO is an ever-changing game, and what works today might not work tomorrow. With that said, we do guarantee that our plugin is the best SEO plugin there is, and it gives you the best chance of ranking higher in Google than any other SEO plugin available right now.

Can I transfer my SEO & Redirection settings from another plugin to Rank Math?

Absolutely. Rank Math has a built-in feature to import SEO settings from the most popular SEO plugins like Yoast SEO, Yoast SEO Premium, AIO SEO Pack, All In One Schema Rich Snippets, and Redirection. Once you install Rank Math and run the setup wizard, you’ll see a dedicated step where you’ll get to import all your SEO settings to Rank Math.

What themes does Rank Math support?

Rank Math has been tested with many WordPress themes and supports all major WordPress themes. Since we follow WordPress’ plugin development guidelines, you can rest assured that Rank Math will work perfectly, no matter what theme you use. If you’ve installed Rank Math and are facing issues, it might not be because of a theme incompatibility. Please get in touch with the support team by opening a support ticket in our support forum, and we will fix it for you.

What plugins is Rank Math compatible with?

Rank Math has been designed using WordPress’ strict plugin development guidelines and therefore, is compatible with majority of plugins. However, if you use another SEO plugin that performs any of the functions that Rank Math does, then you might get unexpected results. We recommend that you disable or delete other SEO plugins for best results.

Will my website slow down if I Install Rank Math?

No. Rank Math’s code has been created and optimized for maximum performance. That is why using Rank Math on your website will not slow down your website. On the contrary, there is a good chance that your website will perform better than ever with Rank Math, as it does the job of multiple plugins. Once you remove the unnecessary plugins from your website, your website’s performance is sure to get better.

Will you set up Rank Math on my website?

Rank Math is pretty easy to set up on your website. Apart from detailed instructions on how to install Rank Math on your website, we’ve built in a user-friendly setup wizard that will help you setup and configure Rank Math perfectly for your website. If you face any issues even after using the setup wizard, please get in touch with the support team by sending an email to support@rankmath.com

Do I have to remove other SEO plugins if I install Rank Math?

That is preferred. Rank Math is designed to be an all in one SEO plugin that takes care of everything SEO-related. If you use other SEO plugins with Rank Math on your website, not only will the performance of your website be negatively affected, but both plugins working together can produce unexpected SEO results.

I already use an SEO plugin. Can I use Rank Math on top of that plugin?

You can, but we don’t recommend it. Rank Math has all the functionalities that you would need in an SEO plugin. If you still prefer using another plugin for a specific feature, you can do that. But, we would recommend that you turn off that functionality of Rank Math to avoid potential issues.

Will I lose my rankings if I switch to Rank Math?

No, you won’t. When you install Rank Math, it will seamlessly import your settings from your current SEO plugin. Once the process is complete, the search engines won’t even notice a change on your website.

If you setup Rank Math from scratch, then your search engine rankings will depend on how you configure it. But please be advised that Google and other search engines prefer good, useful content over anything else.

What are the technical requirements for using Rank Math?

Rank Math requires at least PHP 5.6, cURL lib, cron jobs, to be installed and enabled on the server. Those things are mostly installed on every good hosting server. When you initiate Rank Math’s setup process, Rank Math will also perform a compatibility check to confirm if your server can run Rank Math. If your server has a lower configuration of any Software, please ask your hosting to update it to the latest version.

Can I use Rank Math on a WordPress.com website?

Yes, as the plugin is provided through WordPress.org, it is available on WordPress.com as well.

Which Schema type is best for coupon websites?

There’s no real Schema Markup designed specifically for separate discount codes. We would suggest not to use any Schema Markup and choose ‘None’ option for coupon codes because not doing so might get your site penalized.

Why are my images not getting indexed?

It is completely normal for Google not to index your submitted images. Sometimes, not even a single submitted images is indexed by Google.

Google is almost never willing to index all the pages and images available on a site. The number of pages and images that get indexed is based on the site’s reputation and the quality of the content among others.

How do I noindex inner paginated posts of a website?

Rank Math makes it extremely simple and easy to NoIndex the paginated series’ of your homepage, archives, or single posts.

The tag “rel=canonical” appears more than once in the document

That must be coming from the theme’s code or some other SEO/AMP plugin as the Rank Math plugin adds only one canonical URL per page.

You should try disabling all other plugins and/or switch to a different theme and check.

What’s the difference between various Schema tags?

There are mainly two types of Schema entities, Article and BlogPosting. Article Schema is mainly used for articles as the name suggests. It can also be used for pieces of investigative reports, newspaper articles, magazine articles, research papers, etc..

On the contrary, BlogPosting Schema is used for blog posts. They can be personal or commercial in nature. Most of the non-professional blogs you see online use this Schema type.

Why is Google not showing the Schema data?

For the Rich Snippet data, Rank Math plugin adds the necessary markup for rich snippets. It may take some time before they show up in the search results. Please allow a few days for Google to pick up the new information.

Google WILL NOT necessarily show the Schema data though. They check a few things first and may choose not to show your rich schema. For instance, they check the overall quality of the site, and if the Schema content is representative of the main content of the page or not.

Here is a quote from one of Google’s help article:
We perform algorithmic and manual quality checks to ensure that structured data meets relevancy standards. In cases where we see structured data that does not comply with these standards, we reserve the right to disable rich snippets for a site in order to maintain a high-quality search experience for our users. Read our webmaster guidelines for more details.

Why is the Carousel or Data Highlighter Not Working?

Google can actually extract contents from your pages and display as a rich carousel (AMP or not).

But to make it easier, the best you can do is to use the Data Highlighter option in your Search Appearance tab in Webmaster Tools for your important pages (especially the pillar posts) but not on all content types. Rank Math makes it extremely convenient to do so.

How to enter Meta Keywords in the plugin?

Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking. Here’s a video supporting that:
Bing also mentioned the following statement
Today, it’s pretty clear the meta keyword tag is dead in terms of SEO value. Sure, it might have value for contextual ad systems or serve as a signal to bots plying the web looking for topics to target, but as far as search goes, that tag flatlined years ago as a booster.

Because of these reasons, we do not have an option to add Meta Keywords to your posts. But, this is for your benefit as it has absolutely no effect on your SERPs or SERP rankings.

Why am I getting a ‘Not Found’ Error on my Sitemaps?

We are extremely sorry that you are facing this issue.

Please try the following and see if it helps:
1. Head over to WP Dashboard >> Settings >> Permalinks (wp-admin/options-permalink.php) and click on the ‘Save Changes’ button without making any change to the settings.
2. Make sure you have at least one piece of content published and you haven’t excluded it from being included in the Sitemap.

Improved: By default, the Elementor page builder’s templates are now set to noindex, this will not affect the posts/pages created using Elementor

Improved: As soon as someone deactivates the plugin, the site connected to the Rank Math’s account also gets removed

Improved: Recipe Schema to include contentURL as a required field in the Recipe Video

Improved: The options panel search is much more meaningful now and shows the options from all the Rank Math related settings

Improved: The Schema type for pages like Home, Contact Us, About Us, etc. will now have None selected by default

Improved: For the page set as the Blog page from the WordPress ‘Reading’ settings, there won’t be any content related tests. They made no sense on that page and users were finding it impossible to get a good score on that page

Removed: Stopwords functionality completely, as it is not relevant anymore due to the updates like BERT

Removed: Multiple Social meta options, as they are not required anymore for the Knowledge Graph by Google & Bing. You should only see the needed options in the Global Social Meta settings page

Removed: Social tests from the SEO Analyzer as those are not needed anymore

Removed: isSimilarTo Schema code from the single WooCommerce products to comply with Google’s demands

Fixed: Score was not updating immediately after adding new Focus Keyword in some cases

Fixed: Keyword density test not working when diacritics were used in the focus keyword

Fixed: URL count was not updating immediately and correctly. It should be displaying the count as expected

Fixed: Text in the contact info Shortcode was not translation-ready

Fixed: Filter to disable Gutenberg Sidebar works fine again. Sorry about this and we would recommend to try and get used to the sidebar version as that is more productive

Fixed: An issue with the lazy loading image scripts, where the automatic ALT & Titles tags were adding gibberish characters instead of the proper values

Fixed: Bulk image ALT edit was not working properly in the Media page[List View]